Senior Backend Engineer (Python) — Remote Fintech Data & APIs

StairwaySoft Ltd; United Arab Emirates; Remote; AED 300,000 - 540,000; Full time

Job summary

StairwaySoft is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a product team building a compliance platform for fintech clients. You will design and implement robust Python services, REST APIs, and scalable data pipelines in a remote-friendly setup.

We value a strong product mindset, experience with distributed systems, and bringing production-grade software to market. Join a global engineering provider delivering innovative software solutions to SMBs and startups.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of commercial backend engineering experience.
• Strong Python development with REST API design.
• Experience owning backend systems in production.
• Knowledge of distributed systems and asynchronous processing.
• Proficiency with relational databases (PostgreSQL/MySQL).

Responsibilities

• Design and develop customer-facing REST APIs and supporting documentation.
• Build and own backend services from architecture through implementation and production support.
• Develop secure and reliable data ingestion and processing pipelines.
• Build scraping and parsing components for collecting and structuring external data.
• Design backend systems with scalability, resilience, and performance in mind.
• Work with asynchronous processing, queues, pub/sub, retries, idempotency, and eventual consistency.
• Monitor feature performance in production and iterate from usage data.
• Collaborate with product and stakeholders to deliver practical solutions.

Skills

Backend engineering

Python

REST APIs

Distributed systems

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Cloud environments

CI/CD

English proficiency

Tools

Kafka

Pub/Sub

Dataflow

Flink

Job description

StairwaySoft is seeking a Senior Backend Engineer to join a product team building a compliance platform for fintech clients. You will design and implement robust Python services, REST APIs, and scalable data pipelines in a remote-friendly setup.

We value a strong product mindset, experience with distributed systems, and bringing production-grade software to market. Join a global engineering provider delivering innovative software solutions to SMBs and startups.